Equiv to spotify connect for tidal or qobuz on Mac mini?

[tommyt]

Spotify connect is superbly simple. What's the nearest experience for spotify or tidal on a Mac mini from an iphone? I have a sonos connect that gives good user experience but I'm thinking how I can replace with my Mac mini and retain similar convenience so can sell the sonos.

 

[Guest432]

It's not easy so I'm also using both a Mac Mini and Sonos.

 

[bownose]

Airplay

Two ways:

Bit nerdy but open source raspberry PI and aplay
Easy peasy but proprietary. Airport express set up for Airplay via its optical out or audio out.

Oh and a third way....

Amazon Fire TV (sound via optical out) box is automatically a Spotify connect device and appears next to Airplay items on my iPhone. This is best of both worlds as it can also become an AirPlay device with an app you download from Amazon AppStore.

I use the latter these days. Tidal (still unsure if I will keep it going as it lacks gapless), Qobuz and Spotify as well as locally stored music is all managed by the one box.